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A coffin is the long box a dead person is placed in. The body may then be buried in the ground, or the coffin may go into the fire in a — so the box is not only for burial, even though many first picture a grave.
A coffin coffin is 是 the long box a dead person is placed in 放死者的那個長方形箱子 The body may then be buried in the ground 之後遺體可能會被埋進土裡 or the coffin may go into the fire in a cremation 或者棺材會在火化時被燒掉 so the box is not only for burial 所以這個箱子不是只用在土葬 even though many learners first picture a grave 儘管很多學習者一開始想到的是墳墓
It is a serious, neutral word. You will hear it in news about accidents and in talk about funerals.
It is 這是 a serious, neutral word 一個嚴肅、中性的字 You will hear it 你會在 news about accidents and in talk about funerals 意外新聞和喪禮相關的談話裡 聽到這個字
American English often uses casket for a similar box, especially a more finished, rectangular one; coffin is the older general word, and in some places it still suggests the traditional six-sided shape. Though actually, in everyday speech many people use the two words as if they were the same.
American English often uses casket for a similar box 美式英文常用casket來指類似的箱子 especially a more finished, rectangular one 尤其是做工比較精緻的長方形款式 coffin is the older general word 而coffin是比較舊、比較通用的字 and in some places it still suggests the traditional six-sided shape 在某些地方還是會讓人聯想到傳統的六角形 Though actually 不過其實 in everyday speech many people use the two words as if they were the same 日常講話很多人把這兩個字當成同一個意思在用
There is a rare verb to coffin (to put someone in a coffin), but you almost never need it.
There is a rare verb to coffin 有一個很少見的動詞to coffin (to put someone in a coffin) （意思是把某人放進棺材） but you almost never need it 但你幾乎用不到它
組成From a Greek word for a basket, borrowed into Latin and then French, and into English. It once meant a basket or a box; later it settled on the funeral box. Same ultimate source as coffer.
同家族的字
- coffersame old "basket/box" root; a coffer is a strong box for money or treasure, not a funeral box
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Coffinname
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A surname.
coffinnoun詞源 1/ˈkɒfɪn/
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A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
- […] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe eighth Lenormand card.
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archaicA casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.
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obsoleteA conical paper bag, used by grocers.
- The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.
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The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
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A storage container for nuclear waste.
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A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
coffinverb詞源 1/ˈkɒfɪn/
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To place in a coffin.
- Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.
- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
coffinnoun詞源 2/ˈkɒfɪn/
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obsoletebusinessminingAn exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
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A deep ditch.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。